Display-cabinet.



C, G. DUFFY.

. DISPLAY CABINET.

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O. G. DUFFY.

DISPLAY CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 20, 1913.

1,096,023, Patented May 12, 1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAFH CO..WASH|NOTON. D. c.

CHARLES G. DUFFY, OF NEVV' YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1914..

Application filed December 20, 1913. Serial No. 807,807.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES G. DUFFY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display- Gabinets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to display cabinets of that type in which the articles to. be displayed are suspended in a cabinet or case which may be closed to protect the articles from dust and dirt, and which, when opened, permit the articles to be automatically moved toward the front of the cabinet for ready inspection and examination.

The primary purpose of my invention is to provide a simply constructed device of the character above briefly referred to.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a display cabinet showing one of the doors opened and the other closed; Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 and lookng in the direction of the arrows; Fig. 3 is a substantially central, vertioal sectional, view of the cabinet illustrated in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side elevational view, parts in section, of certain details of construction more fully hereinafter described; Fig. is a fragmentary vertical sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4 looking in the direction of the arrows; and Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view of the supporting bar for the clothing, and certain appurtenant parts.

It is my aim to produce a display cabinet provided with doors which may be normally closed to prevent the entrance of dust and dirt to the interior of the cabinet. The articles to be displayed are preferably suspended within the cabinet, and the doors may be opened to ive access to the interior of the cabinet. If it is desired to advance the suspended articles toward the front of the cabinet, the doors are moved inwardly whereby the article support is advanced toward the front of the cabinet so that the articles may be inspected at close range.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by reference characters, 10 denotes the cabinet base supporting the rear wall 11, and the side walls 12 and 13 which are capped by the top or dome 14. This cabinet maybe of any suitable size and shape, and may be and preferably is so constructed that a plurality of such cabinets may be placed side by side so as to form a series or sections of display units.

Within the cabinet and adjacent the side walls 12 and 13 are upright frames 15 and 16 which are mounted so as to be capable of sliding back and forth within the cabinet.

To the front edges of these frames the doors 17 are hinged at 18. These doors may be paneled or ornamented in any way, or the sashes may carry mirrors, as is usual in display cabinets of this type.

Extending from front to rear of the cabinet, adjacent each of the side walls 12 and 13, are transverse bars or braces 19 and 20,

the latter having secured thereto the oppositely disposed guide rails 21 which are engaged by rollers 22 carried by the sliding frames 15 and 16. As shown particularly in Figs. 4 and 5, there are two complete sets of such rollers, each carried by a bar 23, these bars being on the opposite sides of the guide rails 21, so that one set of rollers engages the upper rail 21, while the opposite set of rollers engages the lower rail 21.

Pivotally mounted on each side of the cabinet in the oppositely disposed bars 24 on the base 10 are uprights or vertical bars 25 connected pivotally by the cross bars 26. The vertical bars 25 with the horizontal bars 26 form a pivotal frame somewhat in the nature of a Jacobs ladder. Between the two Jacobs ladders at the opposite sides of the cabinet is suspended the supporting bar 27 upon which the hooks (not shown) carrying the clothing to be displayed are slidably held. These Jacobs ladders also serve to protect the clothing from rubbing against the sides of the case when the clothing is moved back and forth out of and into display position.

The mechanism for reciprocating the display mechanism is located, mainly, immediately under the dome 14. Secured approximately centrally to the dome 14 and on the interior face thereof is a block 28 into which a pivot stud or screw 29 takes. Pivotally movable about the stud 29 as a center are the crossed arms 30 which are connected, by tog veach of the arms 30 is a link 34 the opposite,

rearwardly extending, end of which is pivotally attached to the upper face of the inner end of one of the sliding frames 15 or 16. Pivotally attached to the end of the arm 30 opposite that end to which the link 34: is attached, is a forwardly extending link 35, having its free end pivotally secured to a cap or clamp 36 (Fig. 6) which is in turn pivotally connected to one of the vertical uprights 2?. The pivot 37 which connects the link 35 to the clamp 36 also serves as the pivot about which swing the arms 38 to which the clothing supporting bar or article 27 is attached.

Secured at or near the front of the dome 14: on the inner side thereof are oppositely arranged guide fingers or projections 39 (Fig. 4) which are adapted to enter slots 40 formed in the top edge of each of the doors 17, the latter each being provided with a knob 11.

The operation of the device is as follows When the doors 17 are closed as shown in Fig. 2, the opposite ends of the arms 30 are spaced apart and the toggle links 31 are extended. hen it is desired to bring the articles to be displayed toward the front of the cabinet, the doors 17 are opened on their hinges 18, and pushed inwardly whereby the frames 15 and 16 are also pushed to the interior of the cabinet. It will be understood that owing to the nature of the operating mechanism in the dome 14, both doors move in unison, and the effect is precisely the same whether either door, or both doors, are pushed inwardly. By this inward motion of the doors the arms 30 are moved about their pivot 29 so that the links Set will move toward the back of the cabinet, while the links 35 will move toward the front part of the cabinet, thus advancing the uprights 25 with the parts appurtenant thereto toward the front of the cabinet (dotted line position in Fig. and at the same time the sliding bars 32 will move toward the oppositely disposed side walls 12 and 13. The extent of inward movement of the frames 15 and 16 determines the extent of the forward movement of the uprights 25 and the articles which are suspended from the bar 27. When it is desired to move the article support 27 into retracted position the doors 17 are pulled outwardly by which action the arms 30 and links 31, 3 1, and 35 are again caused to assume the several positions indicated in Fig. 2. The doors 17 may then be again closed.

It will be noted that by the foregoing in vention, I have provided a device wherein the cabinet may be used in the ordinary way; that is, by opening the doors the in terior of the cabinet is displayed, but by pushing the doors inwardly the articles to be displayed are automatically advanced toward the front of the cabinet. It will also be noted that the doors can only be closed when the display mechanism is moved its entire extent to the interior of the cabinet, in this way preventing articles from being caught between the doors and the parts to which such doors are hinged.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is .1. A display device, embodying a cabinet, a frame slidably mounted adjacent each side wall of the cabinet, a door movably secured to each of said frames, a pair of arms in said cabinet, a common pivot passing through approximately the center of each arm, a connection from one end of each arm to one of said frames, article supporting means reciprocable within the cabinet, and a connection from the other end of each of said arms to said article supporting means.

2. A display device, embodying a cabinet, a pair of centrally pivoted crossed arms in said cabinet, a frame slidably mounted adjacent each side wall of the cabinet, a link pivotally connecting one end of each of said arms with one of said frames, pivotally mounted vertical bars within said cabinet adjacent said frames, and a link pivotally connecting the opposite end of each of said arms with one of said vertical bars.

3. r display device, embodying a cabinet, a pair of centrally pivoted crossed arms in said cabinet, a frame slidably mounted adjacent each side wall of the cabinet, a door hinged at the outer edge of each of said frames, a link pivotally connecting one end of each of said arms with one of said frames,

pivotally mounted vertical bars within said cabinet adjacent said frames, article supporting means carried by said bars, and a link pivotally connecting the opposite end of each of said arms with one of said vertical bars.

i. A display device, embodying a cabinet, a frame slidably mounted adjacent each side wall of the cabinet, a door movably secured to each of said frames, a pair of pivotally mounted and pivotally interconnected uprights adjacent each of said frames, a pair of pivotally mounted crossed arms in said cabinets, and connections from opposite ends of said arms to said frames and said uprights, respectively.

5. A display device, embodying a cabinet, a pair of pivotally interconnected uprights pivoted near the base of the cabinet adjacent each of its side walls and spaced from the latter, a frame slidable in the cabinet in the space between each of the side walls and one of said pairs of uprights, .a door hinged to each of the frames near its outer edge, a pair of pivotally mounted crossed arms supported within the cabinet, a link pivotally connecting one end of each of said arms with one of said frames, and a link pivot-ally connecting the opposite end of each of said arms with one of said pairs of uprights.

6. A display device, embodying a cabinet, a pair of pivot-ally interconnected uprights pivoted near the base of the cabinet adjacent each of its side walls and spaced from the latter, a frame slidable in the cabinet in the space between each of the side walls and one of said pairs of uprights, a door hinged to each of the frames near its outer edge, a pair of pivotally mounted crossed arms supported within the cabinet, a link pivotally connecting one end of each of said arms with one of said frames, a link pivot-ally connectmg the opposite end of each of said arms with one of said pairs of uprights, a sliding CHARLES G. DUFFY.

WVitnesses O'r'ro MUNK, CLARICE FRANOK.

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